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Corona Devo 3324

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The proverbs of Solomon...  ~Proverbs 1:1 Before we read  the proverbs of Solomon , l et's r emember who Solomon (who wrote them) was:  The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel ...  (Proverbs 1:1). Solomon was (King) David's son , and Solomon was also the king  of Israel.   He had it all, or more appropriately, Solomon had  anything he wanted.   Have we ever known a spoiled kid (someone who got everything they ever wanted)...that grew up into a spoiled adult?   But that wasn't Solomon, and that wasn't why he had everything he could have ever wanted.     Solomon started-out humbly ...not in inheritance and financial means, because he was the  son of David-- but in spirit and attitude before the Lord , Solomon was humble.  Even as the king of Israel's son, he came before the Lord of Heaven's Armies in meekness and humility.   And God was pleased with Solomon for this.  In the...

Corona Devo 3323

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One of our neighborhood friends is amazing  with plants and flowers and trees and landscaping.  We drive past his house  just to see  what he has done lately...and greatly.  Living plants are his thing, and a gifting that the Lord has definitely given him.  Luckily for us, he shares his gifts, and the other day he brought our family over some bouquets of flowers that he had grown.  The arrangements (and his heart in blessing us with them) were beautiful, and I guess it's been five days since he delivered the vases. The flowers appear on the earth; t he time of singing has come, a nd the voice of the turtledove i s heard in our land.  ~Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers, and the greens, and the foliage that he put together all caught my eye immediately, but as I took them in that first night...something else caught my eye too:  a spider. A small arachnid, ( exactly the same hue as the ornamental beige grass tufting out of the arrangement), was p...